A highly certified project management professional, backed by 15 years of experience, currently serving as a Performance and Reporting Specialist in the PMO unit of the Digital Cluster at Abu Dhabi Ports Group. In this role, she oversees the delivery and reporting of the ATLP Advanced Trade and Logistics Platform for the UAE, which is developed and operated by the Digital Cluster of AD Ports. She plays a crucial role in the rollout and adoption of Portfolio/Project management tools within the organization.
Reema's expertise spans various areas, including Portfolio/Program/Project Management, Management/dashboard reporting (cluster, program KPIs, status, roadmap, etc.), Project Audit, Project Financials, and the ability to create impactful reports. Skilled in consulting for trade facilitation digital services, and effectively communicating risk, issues, and opportunities.
In terms of technical proficiency, Reema excels in using automated PPM tools like BigPicture, Tempo Planner, and Confluence built on top of JIRA. Additionally, she is adept at creating PowerPoint presentations, product manuals, process flow diagrams using Microsoft Visio, Excel reports, and Balsamiq wireframes. Her ability to quickly grasp new digitalized processes and systems is commendable.
Soft Skills
• effective communicator with excellent relationship-building and interpersonal skills
• strong partnership with multi-disciplinary and cross-functional teams
• expertise in Problem Analysis, Team Leadership
• strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making abilities
Additional Skills
• Rich experience in Quality Assurance Testing, Business analysis for Digital Services, Customer Account Management (facilitating user journey transformation), Stakeholder Management, Customer Registration, Team Delivery.
• Direct interaction with different stakeholders and clients, good knowledge of Digital Adoption practices and Customer Handholding, managed new product launches and ad-hoc issues.
• Diverse experience across versatile domains like Shipping & Logistics, Retail, Finance (Capital Markets, Banking - Treasury and Security Services, Core banking, Corporate & Investment Banking, Insurance, Cards & ATMs), and HR & Procurement. Served as a functional leader for multiple ventures.
• Instrumental role in various SDLC methodologies like Agile Scrum, Hybrid, Kanban, DevOps, Waterfall etc.
PMO for ATLP Advanced Trade & Logistics Program in UAE - Single Source of truth
International Evaluations / Awards Submissions – Drafted and submitted award winning proposal for ATLP at group level for a major international award.
Managing internal and external stakeholders of ATLP
Key member in implementation, rollout and adoption of automated PPM tools i.e., All-in-one PPM applications in addition to JIRA including BigPicture, Tempo Planner.
Trade Facilitation Specialist | Business Analyst User experience and Training Consultant, Functional Expert
Specialist - Digital Services | Stakeholder-Change Management | User Journey Transformation | Functional Expert | CAB Advisory |
May 2019 - Apr 2021
May 2021 - Sept 2021
Jan 2018 - April 2019 (1y,4m)
Worked as a part of Digital Transformation Team with focus on digital transformation of customer journey to enhance their satisfaction. At the first entry point we ensured the customer is advocated to facilitate all their requirements and demands in AD Ports and beyond. It also involved challenges in overcoming stakeholder’s resistance and ensuring their technical readiness. Responsibilities involved
- Oracle E-business Suite (HR and Procurement),
- Oracle Taleo (Recruitment and hiring portal),
- Intellect (Core Banking System by polaris), Megara-Custody System,
- Advent Portfolio Exchange Systems (i.e., Moxy, APX) and Bloomberg
- POS Terminals.
Mumbai, India
| Team Lead - Software Quality Assurance | Agile | Subject Matter Expert | Functional Delivery Lead, Business/system Analyst, Agile Scrum Master |
JP Morgan Co. provides Banking, Capital markets and Treasury services solutions to its corporate and individual clients and has been performing in global markets. It has different online portal services that deal with intercompany loans, treasury services payments and other banking modules.
Liquidity Solutions is a web based front-end application which is used by JP Morgan Clients across the globe. It is an extension of TLIP (Treasury and Liquidity Investment Product).
Walgreens is a leading US drugstore chain which also deals in Retail marketing of daily care products. The company operates 7,563 drugstores across all 50 states. ‘Ad Planning’ application involved planning of promotions for WAG products as Category Managers related to pricing and various o with the business rules.
Portfolio, Program, Project Management
UAE:
Mumbai
Promoted thrice in first 6 years of career in Accenture i.e., from Associate Software Engineer (ASE) -> SE -> Senior SE -> Team Leader
Acknowledged with Project specific Achiever’s award for extensive of application and functionality involving testing practices followed in project delivered to the new joiners
Recognized by monetary performance award for providing re-usable solutions adding to the best practices used by the project. Result: Optimal use of man-hours and effective defect capturing)
Received individual ACE award (Accenture Celebrates Excellence) under category ‘Delivery Excellence’ for organizing quality work efforts within 1 year of joining – 2009.
PMP® Project Management Professional